On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:11:51AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Corey Edwards wrote:
>> >Speaking of MythTV, if you don't mind my switching topics a bit, does
> >anyone have any good recommendations for a remote control and/or
> >wireless keyboard and mouse? Something that doesn't interfere with wifi
> >and works from a reasonable distance (10 feet) would be key.
>> The remote they used in the LinuxMCE demo vidoe on google video was
> pretty cool. Seemed far and away the best remote device every made for
> AV stuff.
>> By the way, for the beginner(?), LinuxMCE looks like *the* uber setup
> for MythTV. Integrates with MythTV and Asterix PBX, and can control and
> switch all kinds of AV devices. The demo video of it, albeit a bit
> cheesy, is amazing.
The video is amazing but in my experince your mileage varries, a lot.
Give them another year and it may be like the video. (Linux MCE is a
combination of forks from pluto, mr house and other open source media
collection projects.)